Donald Trump Takes Another Swipe at Taylor Swift During Eagles' White House Visit: ‘How Did That One Work Out?'
Donald Trump hosted the 2025 Super Bowl LIX champs the Philadelphia Eagles at the White House on Monday (April 28), where he took the opportunity to once again lash out at Taylor Swift. The President took his latest swipe at the pop star during the visit when he lauded the Eagles for their commanding 40-22 win in February over the Kansas City Chiefs.
'It was an incredible game. A little surprising, but right from the beginning of the first quarter of the big game, which I was there I watched in person,' said Trump before adding a diss aimed at the billionaire pop superstar who is, of course, dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. 'I was there along with Taylor Swift, how did that work out? How did that one work out?'
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Trump, the first sitting President to attend the NFL championship game, has made a habit of lashing out at world-beating pop star, including on the night of the Super Bowl, when he wrote, 'The only one who had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift. She got BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving.'
While Swift was met with some audible boos from the crowd when she was shown on the jumbotron that night, Trump's latest comments come on the eve of the 100-day mark of his second term in office at a time when, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll 45% of those polled gave him an 'F' for how he's handled things so far, compared to just 23% giving him an 'A.'
Trump's overall approval rating is 42%, which stands as the second-worst approval rating for any president at the 100-day mark in the past 80 years, bested only by the 41% lodged by Trump during his first term; in a different Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll, his approval rating was a historically low 39%. And while Trump promised to fix the economy on day one and lower the nation's debt by slashing government agencies, his onerous across-the-board tariffs and DOGE-led mass firings have resulted in a 39% approval rating to date on his handling of the economy, a new low for Trump.
As is his wont, Trump lashed out in all-caps at the dismal poll numbers, decrying them as 'FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS' and saying that they should be 'investigated for ELECTION FRAUD!'
The White House visit is a tradition for some championship teams, but a number of prominent players skipped Monday's event, including QB Jalen Hurts, as well as star players A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, Brandon Graham and six others; the Eagles turned down a visit to the White House after winning their first Super Bowl in 2018 during Trump's first term.
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